How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation
Don’t log off. Keep score.
Ideas
What J. D. Vance—And Many Others—Miss About American Anti-Semitism
Making anti-Semitism about your ideological enemies doesn’t help anyone understand, let alone solve, the problem.
Circles of Epstein Hell
Though association with the man is certainly worthy of scrutiny, not everyone in his network is guilty of participation in his abusive sexual enterprise—or necessarily guilty at all.
Rescheduling Marijuana Is an Enormous Mistake
Trump’s executive order does little more than offer a tax cut to an industry that profits from addiction.
What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Younger
The three reasons old people are happier that work for any age
Why the Brown University Shooter Is Still at Large
Given the sheer volume of mass shootings in America, an unknown shooter with an unknown motive will sometimes make an escape.
How Warren Buffett Did It
The most successful investor of all time is retiring. Here’s what made him an American role model.
The ‘Filthy Little Slum Child’ Who Remade the American Right
The intellectual world that Norman Podhoretz created
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
Americans Can’t Believe How Rich They Are
The misguided temptation to exaggerate poverty